Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BUTTER AND EGG MAN? Last few weeks of the shrewd history of how a small fortune was lost and found behind the scenes of a Broadway play...
...staple goods, a staple price; each and every one costs two dollars. If you have not chosen yet, ask that newsdealer to hand you Rodomont (Putnam) by H. Bedford-Jones. Therein two shrewd and muscular sons of American forests swash and buckle about the craggy slopes of Mont St. Michel in the days of Louis XIV. Ham and eggs? Not precisely, but the same principle...
Louis Wiley, shrewd business manager of the New York Times, told them that "cooperation is the important reason for modern progress." Dr. Rollo G. Reynolds of Columbia Teachers' College told them that "America is the first country in the world that has dared to educate all of her people. . . . When I went to school I was educated so that I could get a good job and make a lot of money. You young folks today are educated instead to make your contributions to the great experiment of democracy...
...world tennis champion. Circumstances make it necessary for her to turn professional. She has English suitors. She becomes involved with an Argentine. She gambles at Monte Carlo. Her love affairs are complicated by a code of honor more British than Gallic, and solved by tactics allegedly American?but what shrewd Frenchwoman is ignorant of these? Some of the tennis scenes are a bit stodgy and childish, coming from a temperamental cosmopolite, but a big trente-et-quarante act redeems them. In fine, there is a thick sprinkling of evidence that within a certain bright bandeau is a head whose clarity...
...WISDOM TOOTH-A shrewd and sensitive fantasy about a clerk who suddenly saw himself as a little...